When Chase was born on 27 March 1817, in Dummerston, Windham, Vermont, United States, his father, James Arnold Chase, was 30 and his mother, Chloe Dunkley, was 27. He died on 29 March 1817, in his hometown, at the age of 0, and was buried in Dummerston, Windham, Vermont, United States.
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English (southern): metonymic occupational name for a huntsman, or perhaps a nickname for an exceptionally skilled huntsman, from Middle English chase ‘hunt’ (Old French chasse, from chasser ‘to hunt’, Latin captare).
History: Thomas Chase came to MA from Chesham, Buckinghamshire, England, in the 1640s, and had many prominent descendants. Samuel Chase, born in Somerset County, MD, in 1741, was one of the first members of the US Supreme Court; Philander Chase, born in Cornish, NH, in 1741 was a prominent Episcopal clergyman, and his nephew Salmon Portland Chase (1808–73), also born in Cornish, was governor of OH, a US senator, and secretary of the US Treasury during the Civil War.
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